Arsenic in other breads and toxins responsible for cancer and serious diseases

On the other sheet of ananalysis, what appears to be the level of inorganic arsenic that results in 0,266 milligrams per kilogram. In view of the fact that the weight of bread is only 800 grams, this means that the level may be even higher. As you know, inorganic arsenic is a very dangerous toxic substance if found at high levels. But what further complicates the situation is the fact that official guides and manuals in power have not set a standard on the level of bread. At this point, experts remain divided. Doctors give the alarm and consider it problematic to have this result consistent in analysis of 0,266 arsenic milligrams. Meanwhile, for chemists the situation cannot be defined as dramatic...

“Be careful why, because arsenic for not all diseases has the same dose that is recommended, so I got the smallest one, and this is to calculate all sorts of diseases, but for skin lesions, so skin cancer, and so on this dosage is 0.3 for some others to increase, when it falls to cause lung cancer, heart problems, infertility...”, Ilir Alimeti, doctor, said.

“In scientific principles cannot be taken into reference to rice because the bread has mass consumption, and especially in our country is the main product of mass use in population at all ages and therefore has to have its own scientific standards that we don't have, unfortunately, said Besnik Jakaj, a physician, in research at the Inside Story of Top Channel, broadcast Periscope.

In the medical concept we're going to see the exposure that we have to arsenic, so the man who gets the arsenic and not forget that there are two kinds of arsenic, organic and inorganic. Inorganic is the bad”, said the doctor, Ilir Alimehmeti.

“We're talking here about the total arsenic level, while in literature and legislation it's inorganic arsenic, which is toxic”, said the doctor, Ilir Peknikaj.

In the direction 4 dates 9.2.2024 “for setting maximum levels, for some consignors in food”, on the appropriate set of limits for “Drithers and cereal-based products” there is no level set for bread

For some experts, this is an indication that arsenic cannot and should not be present at the bread. This is also supported by the fact that the AQU in its labs has no definition of its level of arsenic in bread.

And we see in the first analysis that the arsenic is high, compared to European grain regulations, but it's only cited rice, if we do the comparison we're off the maximum limit, we have daily bread and consumption is daily. This is an allert task, but it's an allert for AUK, which should necessarily follow the development in this direction of heavy metal”, said the doctor, Ilir Alimehmeti.

Found in a situation without accurate definitions, we are directed to it AKU's with another request for information if it carries heavy metal tests on bread, and what are the levels it takes based on the arsenic case, but we didn't get an answer until the documentary broadcast.

“Wants great attention on the part of regulatory agencies. It has happened in Albania that the AK has not had certain values as much as the maximum allowed value will be, and it has determined the way it has resulted in problems”, said the doctor, Ilir Alimehmeti.

At this point, it is clear that we face a large vacuum that needs to address lawmakers. From informal communication with experts close to line institutions, we were told that conducting such tests on metals in bread is rare, if not in existence. Despite the contradiction among experts, doctors insist that under any circumstances, the presence of the arsenic is dangerous and with consequences to health.

“Doses that recognize the European food safety authority have been lowered for the past two years because they have been higher by 2023, but realizing that this is an increasingly serious problem then they have lowered doses from 0.6 that what you told me is in the milligrams, in 8 microgram per kg of body weight”, the doctor said, Ilir Alimehmeti.

And if we take the maximum that it says is 8 micrograms per pound of weight and then a kid 20 kilos is going to tolerate as much as 160 micrograms daily. Attention, we are not only exposed to arsenic through bread but also to other foods, there is rice, there are juices of fruit, and the body understands the total archenic with not only a certain resource”, said the doctor, Ilir Alimehmeti.